H MAURICE BARING By WILLIAM LYON PHELPS 'ERE is one of the most brilliant of contemporary ____men of letters; original, learned, wise, witty, humorous, tender, sympathetic, whose...
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An American Poet Selected Poems of Thomas Walsh, ivith a Memoir by John Bunker, and Appreciations by Edward L. Keyes and Michael Williams. New York: The Dial Press. $2.50. OUT OF the abundance...
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books :•• A Hero Worshiped' Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, 1880-1919, by Owen Wister. New York: The Macmillan Company. $4.00. IT WOULD be as difficult to write a dull book on...
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AMONG THE FALL BOOKS Superman, Poet, Novelist The Life of George Meredith, by Robert Esmonde Sencourt. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $3.50. GEORGE MEREDITH was a superman. He had enough...
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668 THE COMMONWEAL October 31, 1928 BOOKS Crusading against the Pagans Catholicism and the Modern Mind, by Michael Williams. New York: The Dial Press. $3.50. f I VHERE is a stimulating...
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May 23, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL THE VOICE IN THE THEATRE By WILLIAM LYON PHELPS DESPITE the prodigious popularity of the motion pictures, of the victrola and of the radio, nothing can...
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